Clever Canadians...

[ELB]

http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2012/08/30 ... e-registry" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - Thousands of gun owners are swapping their shotguns and rifles with friends and neighbours in an effort to obliterate the defunct federal long-gun registry.

"More than two million law abiding Canadians are sick of being portrayed as criminals so we are calling on them to swap their guns so we can make the old data totally useless," said Tony Bernardo, spokesman with the Canadian Shooting Sports Association.

"More than 2,000 guns were shuffled on Thursday."

Firearms ownership advocates worry that because the Quebec has filed an injunction to save the data in the long-gun registry so it can set up its own, that it will one day come back from the dead and be used to track long-gun owners across Canada once again.

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More at the link.

[MikeInTX]

"When a state’s intervention costs 1,000 times more than expected and has not proven to have saved a single life, the government backtracks.

That’s exactly what has happened after two decades in Canada with the now-infamous national gun registry."


http://www.torontosun.com/2013/02/20/qu ... n-the-dark" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[gdanaher]

So let me understand. The Canadian federal government had a registry of gun owners' names and gun numbers. So the owners get together and swap out their long guns so that the serial numbers no longer match the registry. Did they also swap out their names or something? If their name was on the registry and it showed a long gun, then it is still there, only with a different long gun. But they still have a gun. So, am I missing something?

[RoyGBiv]

am I missing something?

Govt: Where is your Rem 700 S/N 12345678, eh?
Citizen: I sold it a few weeks ago.
Govt: Why don't we have the transfer notice, eh?
Citizen: Because it's not required any longer
Govt: Do you have any other rifles, eh?
Citizen: What's your list say?

[anygunanywhere]

I they had been clever then they never would have allowed the registry to begin with, eh?

Anygunanywhere, eh?

[bizarrenormality]

I they had been clever then they never would have allowed the registry to begin with, eh?

Anygunanywhere, eh?

You can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time.

[ELB]

Wow. I think that is the longest time between me posting an OP and getting a reply.

As far as guns go, Quebec appears to be the Chicago of Canada.

"When a state’s intervention costs 1,000 times more than expected and has not proven to have saved a single life, the government backtracks."
I wish this were really true; most of the time, government just dumps more money into it. For the national parliament to dump the national gun registry really was remarkable.

[tommyg]

Confusion to the enemy the more confused the gun grabbers the better for us